Glancing and hit consistency

[Thrax1]

Every weapon except maces have a pretty inconsistent hit box. Nothing is more frustrating than to “beat” your opponent, swing for 5 damage (and more importantly not getting a stun) to then be hit back. In warband it seemed like if you glanced it was your usually your fault, in Bannerlord, it’s just more inconsistent.

 

[soul_jak]

Agreed it’s hell on spear too

 

[Mushbeast]

It's the absolute worst on spears and is probably the biggest reason as to why they're so trash for anything other than rearing a horse. In my experience too, it seems that 2handed weapons rarely ever glance compared to 1handed, and I would've thought it'd make sense to be the other way around.

 

[KSHMR]

Yeah we need a video or something to show this I guess

 

[hoonii]

Lance hits bouncing off was a huge problem but they fixed it with 1.5.5, I haven't noticed any bouncing off yet BUT spears on horseback are kinda bad now idk what happened but they played with hitboxes and ****ed them up a little bit there have been times I've seen my spear hit the targets head and count as a miss, also when spear hits from a certain angle it %90 of the time I think the tip misses the target and deals like 10 damage and makes blunt noise, very annoying.
Spears seem to have gone a bit worse with 1.5.5 I hope they fix their inconsistency before BEAST 4.

 

[OurGloriousLeader]

I find hits if anything don't bounce off enough as you can hit on almost any part of the swing (which is about a 270 degree arc around you) with very free turning as well. But this is preferable to earlier version where bounces were frequent and unpredictable.

I don't know if they can improve it much without shortening the arcs of the swings a bit.

 

[Diavolo]

Honestly I don't see any good reason why glancing should even be in the game.

 

[OurGloriousLeader]

Mild glancing encourages good positioning and accuracy, you have to strike a balance between speed and damage, finding the sweet spot.

 

[Pacemaker]

Honestly I don't see any good reason why glancing should even be in the game.

Yes, every cav player should be able to wiggle the sloppiest hit into a full damage thrust, when they are already dishing out the most damage. I sure hope they put you in charge of balancing combat. ?

 

[soul_jak]

Honestly I don't see any good reason why glancing should even be in the game.

currently, it does not exist for two-hander lmao